Biotechnology

Which field would most likely NOT incorporate  biotechnology?

• Agriculture 
• Genetics 
• Medicine
• Mining 

Which agricultural benefit can biotechnology  provide?

• developing plants that are less dependent on the sun for energy
• developing plants that are less sensitive to variations in environmental temperatures
• developing plants with inheritable traits unrelated to the genetic material they contain
• developing plants that will not die

Which of the following subjects would someone  most likely study if he or she wanted to work in  the biotechnology field?

• Chemistry 
• Genetics
• Physics 
• Environmental Science 

Which process uses a body cell to create a new organism?

• Crossbreeding 
• cloning 
• genetic modification 
• gene splicing 

Which of these is not a way in which biotechnology can benefit agriculture?

• increase crop population
• reducing the loss of crops to insects
• producing better-tasting fruits
• improving farm machinery

A genome is

• part of a chromosome
• a gene inserted into a chromosome of bacteria
• a sequence of units in a short segment of DNA
• the complete sequence of an organism’s DNA  
  

Which of these would be a concern about the use of biotechnology?

• creation of new pathogens
• making of new vaccines
• increased opportunities for jobs
• increased crop yield

___________ changes the genetic material of a living organism.

• Crossbreeding 
• Genetic Modification 
• Bioremediation
• Genome

A gene gun and a virus may both be classified as ____ because they are mechanisms by which foreign DNA may be transferred into a host cell.

• bacteria
• plasmids
• vectors
• splicers

____ are produced when DNA from another species is inserted into the genome of an organism, which then begins to produce the protein encoded on the recombinant DNA.

• vectors
• plasmids
• transgenic organisms
• gene guns